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Senior Systems Engineer

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Senior level
Designs, implements, and maintains Linux systems across physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructures. Responsibilities include applying software and security updates, improving operational processes, collaborating with hardware vendors and cross-functional teams, supporting L1 and L2 operations, automating infrastructure with Ansible, and managing virtualization and cloud technologies. The role also involves stakeholder management, customer satisfaction, troubleshooting, and communicating technical concepts to varied audiences.
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Do you enjoy problem-solving and implementing solutions?

Do you enjoy working in a highly collaborative environment?

Join our Infrastructure Services team!

Our Enterprise Hosting Services team is responsible for designing and implementing systems that run a variety of server OS on virtual (physical, cloud) infrastructures. As an industry leading team, we work to increase productivity and security while decreasing cost, downtime and repetitive tasks.

Partner with the best

In this role you will be working with hardware vendors to provide solutions to the customers. Also, working with automation and best practices for Linux based operating systems to provide a scalable and agile computing platform.

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will be responsible for:

  • Keeping systems up to date with the latest software and security standards.

  • Adopting best practice guidelines to influencing and implement continuous improvements to the processes.

  • Collaborating and brainstorming with team members to ensure quality and accuracy of solutions

  • Assessing, creating, and improving processes to ensure optimal utilization of resources and assurance of complete customer satisfaction.

  • Providing support for L1, L2 operation teams.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

  • Having 4+ years experience along with engineering graduation 

  • Be at ease managing multiple projects, setting stakeholder expectations, and collaborating across various teams.

  • Be knowledgeable about Virtualization, Cloud Services like AWS, Azure, Hypervisors like Qemu, VMware, HyperV. As well as scripting and automation with tools such as Ansible.

  • Be a good team player, collaborate, prioritize, and solve problems in a fast changing environment

  • Be comfortable working with Internet protocols such as TCP/UDP, DNS, and/or HTTP/HTTPS

  • Able to communicate complex technical content to a wide range of audiences with varying technical abilities

Build your career at Akamai

Our ability to shape digital life today relies on developing exceptional people like you. The kind that can turn impossible into possible. We’re doing everything we can to make Akamai a great place to work. A place where you can learn, grow and have a meaningful impact.

With our company moving so fast, it’s important that you’re able to build new skills, explore new roles, and try out different opportunities. There are so many different ways to build your career at Akamai, and we want to support you as much as possible. We have all kinds of development opportunities available, from programs such as GROW and Mentoring, to internal events like the APEX Expo and tools such as Linkedin Learning, all to help you expand your knowledge and experience here.

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Not sure if this job is the right match for you or want to learn more about the job before you apply? Schedule a 15-minute exploratory call with the Recruiter and they would be happy to share more details.


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